Language · 1997 · 591 citations · 0 references
Language StudiesLinguisticsPhilosophy Of LanguageSemanticsSyntaxFormal SemanticsLexical AnalysisModal SemanticsPredicate LogicType ClassificationType SystemsGeneric TermsGeneric TypesGenericityOverviewSemantic Types
This work consists of an introduction and 11 articles on important aspects of the interpretation of generic expressions. The introduction provides a clear overview of various issues and synthesizes the major analytical approaches to them. Taken together, the papers that follow reflect the current state of the art in the semantics of generics, and afford insight into various generic phenomena.